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- noun Attributive form of
civil law
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Examples
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Their efforts, Ms. Glendon reminds us, brought forth the Justinian Code, a body of work that would become the primary source for the Renaissance's revival of Roman law—and ultimately of the West's freedom-respecting civil-law systems.
Power and The Professors Brian C. Anderson 2011
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It can be argued that the civil-law system, if sought to be applied in this country, would be struck down as a violation of equal protection/due process.
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It can be argued that the civil-law system, if sought to be applied in this country, would be struck down as a violation of equal protection/due process.
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It can be argued that the civil-law system, if sought to be applied in this country, would be struck down as a violation of equal protection/due process.
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It can be argued that the civil-law system, if sought to be applied in this country, would be struck down as a violation of equal protection/due process.
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It can be argued that the civil-law system, if sought to be applied in this country, would be struck down as a violation of equal protection/due process.
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It can be argued that the civil-law system, if sought to be applied in this country, would be struck down as a violation of equal protection/due process.troll_dc2Quote
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The resulting inevitable selective enforcement is then aimed at political targets, and reinforced by perversions such as “hate crime”, which punish thought and attitude instead of action, and criminalization of traditional civil-law matters, wherein breaches of contract are treated in strange and special ways.
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The same kind of chauvinism in 1768 which insurrected against the sudden introduction of Spanish law would resurface in 1803 as a Spanish-French chauvinism now ready to defend a mixed civil-law heritage and to resist by all political means the introduction of Common Law in Louisiana.
Archive 2008-03-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Rather, it preferred to retain “as heretofore” the civil-law system of “petition and answer.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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